Word: hydrogenating
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...outpost for the U.S. and Denmark since the Cold War. Inuit hunters were displaced when the American military set up camp at the Thule Air Base on the island's northwest shore in the 1950s, and Inuit hunters were the first to be exposed when a B-52 carrying hydrogen bombs crashed near the base in 1968. "We are fragile, both in terms of the climate crisis and because of the military buildup in the Arctic," says Aqqaluk Lynge, president of Inuit Circumpolar Conference Greenland. Things don't always work out for small, oil-rich countries with indigenous populations...
...break up a terrorist cell bent on amassing and purifying a huge cache of highly explosive hydrogen peroxide, the German authorities looked not only far and wide, but right in their back yards. Over the course of many months, hundreds of security agents worked together to uncover the plot, overcoming hurdles of logistics and imagination that tripped up American authorities in the months before September 11th...
Despite these challenges, the German authorities kept a watchful eye on the three would-be bombers, allowing the evidence to mount while ensuring that the public was never threatened—even secretly swapping concentrated hydrogen peroxide with a much more dilute mixture...
...communications between the aliases "Muaz," "Zafer" and "Abdul Malik," apparently based in Germany, and sources in Pakistan. U.S. officials passed on copies of those messages, apparently gleaned from private Internet chat rooms, to German officials. The messages were in code, but contained some decipherable details including a discussion of hydrogen peroxide, which can be used to make a bomb in high enough concentrations. At one point, a message mentioned "The Kurd is coming," leading analysts to believe that an attack was imminent...
...hydrogen-powered silver Prius soon came to fill the president’s parking space. (Bok long ago traded in the red Volkswagen Beetle, his chariot of choice throughout his first presidency...